The Ancestor Paradox

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Sign up for a 14-day free trial and enjoy all the amazing features MyHeritage has to offer: https://bit.ly/MinuteEarth_MH There are several ways to think about ancestry, and all of them suggest you have fewer unique ancestors than you might think. LEARN MORE ************** To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: - Genealogy: a line of descent traced continuously from an ancestor. - Genetic ancestor: a person from whom an individual is biologically descended - Genetic ancestry: the genetic origin of a person's population, and the specific lines of descent through which they inherited DNA from their ancestors. - Pedigree: the recorded ancestry, especially upper-class ancestry, of a person or family. - Pedigree collapse: a term used in genealogy to describe when the number of distinct ancestors in a family tree is smaller than it would be otherwise. SUPPORT MINUTEEARTH ************************** If you like what we do, you can help us!: - Become our patron: https://patreon.com/MinuteEarth - Our merch: http://dftba.com/minuteearth - Our book: https://minuteearth.com/books - Sign up to our newsletter: http://news.minuteearth.com - Share this video with your friends and family - Leave us a comment (we read them!) CREDITS ********* Cameron Duke | Script Writer, Narrator and Director Arcadi Garcia i Rius | Storyboard Artist Sarah Berman | Illustration, Video Editing and Animation Nathaniel Schroeder | Music MinuteEarth is produced by Neptun

Published 2024-12-27 · Watch on YouTube ↗
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